Samsung’s humanoid robot push

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Samsung is betting big on bipedal robots, and its latest $181M Rainbow Robotics acquisition shows that it’s dead serious about bringing humanoids into the house.

With the Korean tech giant able to mix its AI-infused products with advanced robotics, your next home assistant might just walk on two legs. Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Samsung makes big robotics move

• ByteDance ups image generation efficiency

• Create AI product videos with Ingredients

• Rubik’s AI releases first model family of 2025

• 5 recent AI tools & 5 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

SAMSUNG

🤖 Samsung makes big robotics move

The Rundown: Samsung Electronics just announced a significant investment into Rainbow Robotics, expanding its presence in humanoid robotics development and positioning itself as a serious competitor within the increasingly crowded sector.

The small print:

• The tech giant will invest $181M to turn out to be Rainbow’s controlling shareholder, bringing the Korean robotics firm under its corporate umbrella.

• A newly created Future Robotics division will report on to Samsung’s CEO, and pioneering roboticist Dr. Jun-Ho Oh will head the initiative.

• The move unites Samsung’s AI tech with Rainbow’s robotics background, which incorporates breakthroughs in bipedal movement with its Hubo robot.

• Samsung also plans to implement Rainbow’s robotic systems in manufacturing facilities while advancing humanoid development.

Why it matters: While competition in robotics has grown fierce, Samsung’s vast resources and web of consumer products seem to be an ideal match for levelling up toward their very own practical humanoid robots. While it seems like sci-fi, consumers will likely soon don’t have any shortage of household humanoid robots to pick from.

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BYTEDANCE

 📶 ByteDance ups image generation efficiency

The Rundown: ByteDance researchers just published 1.58-bit FLUX, a brand new approach to AI model compression that dramatically reduces the computational demands of state-of-the-art image generation while maintaining output quality.

The small print:

• The team compressed the FLUX system to a few easy values (positive, negative, or zero) as a substitute of complex numbers, reducing storage by 8x.

• Specialized software helps the compressed system run using 5x less computer memory while producing faster generation speeds.

• The compression works without requiring access to training images; as a substitute, it uses self-supervision from the unique model.

• Despite extreme compression, tests on industry benchmarks like GenEval and T2I Compbench show comparable image quality to the total model.

Why it matters: While AI systems across the board proceed to speed up in capabilities, equally necessary is ensuring compute requirements don’t turn out to be a bottleneck for real-world use cases. This breakthrough, a minimum of for images, shows AI can drastically reduce requirements without compromising quality.

AI TRAINING

🎥 Create AI product videos with Ingredients

The Rundown: Pika Labs’ recent Ingredients feature enables you to upload specific subjects, products, and styles to generate consistent AI marketing videos.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to the Pika Labs’ website.

2. Locate the Ingredients feature and upload your product images, style references, and backgrounds.

3. Write a transparent prompt describing your required scene.

4. Generate your video using Creative or Precise modes to inform Pika how much to limit its creative interpretation.

Pro tip: For best results, use high-quality images of your product against a clean background.

RUBIK’S AI

🚀 Rubik’s AI releases first model family of 2025

The Rundown: Rubik’s AI just kicked off 2025 with the primary model launch of the 12 months, and its Sonus-1 family of AI models features 4 versions designed for various use cases while achieving performances that rival top competitors on key benchmarks.

The small print:

• The Sonus-1 family includes 4 model varieties: Mini (speed), Air (on a regular basis use), Pro (complex tasks), and Reasoning (advanced problem-solving).

• Sonus-1 Reasoning excels at math problem-solving, achieving 97% on the GSM-8k benchmark and 91.8% on advanced mathematics tests.

• Basically knowledge tests, the Pro version with Reasoning reaches 90.15% on MMLU, surpassing many leading competitors and nearly matching o1.

• The system also integrates real-time search capabilities and Flux image generation, allowing for up-to-date info and visual creation throughout the platform.

Why it matters: The primary model release of 2025 is impressive, coming from a totally unknown company (there is largely zero details about it, so take these benchmarks with a grain of salt for now). Nevertheless, if the capabilities hold, this sort of performance could also be an early preview of how wild 2025 might be.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🎁 Exa Twitter Wrapped – Exa-powered AI analyzes your Twitter profile and provides you a 2024 recap of favorite topics, top tweets, and more

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• ⚙️ DataMorf – Streamline data workflows and automate pipelines effortlessly with real-time AI-powered transformations

• 🗣️ GitPodcast – Generate engaging podcasts to grasp GitHub repositories

Latest AI Job Opportunities

• 💬 Cresta – Junior Conversational AI Design, Intern

• 🛠️ Meta – Design Verification Engineer

• 🌎 Synthesia – Global Technical Support Manager

• ☁️ Author – Cloud Alliance Partner Manager

• 🧠 Figure AI – AI Engineer, Large-Scale Training

QUICK HITS

LG introduced its recent line of AI-powered gram laptops, featuring each on-device and cloud-based AI capabilities — with the 2025 lineup including recent Pro models powered by Intel’s next-gen processors and Microsoft’s Copilot+.

Samsung is partnering with Instacart to enable direct grocery ordering from its 2025 Bespoke refrigerator screens, which can utilize ‘AI Vision Inside’ tech to acknowledge and reorder food items for same-day delivery.

X missed Elon Musk’s previously reported end-of-2024 release for Grok-3, with recently discovered code potentially hinting at a possible 2.5 release planned as a substitute.

AI startup Rembrand secured a $23M Series A funding round to expand its AI-powered virtual product placement tech from social media to connected TV, with the corporate planning to launch each self-service and skilled models.

Google is reportedly using Anthropic’s Claude to benchmark and evaluate Gemini’s performance, with internal documents revealing detailed response comparisons between the competing models.

An AI-powered robot named Captcha became the primary humanoid to show a category, taking students at a highschool in Germany through a day of lectures and debates.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team